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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to discuss how we should accept whatever comes our way and figure out how to make the best of those events. I love taking personality quizzes so I get an idea of what my strengths are and what are my weaknesses are. It gives me a perspective of where I should be putting my time and energy.
When I took the Myers-Brigg quiz, I found that I’m a logician, which means I’m introverted, I focused on ideas and concepts, I make decisions on logic and reason and prefer to be spontaneous and flexible. So I think I choose a great field for myself as a financial planner and personal development coach. I feel like I was meant for this path.
I started off as a personal trainer, then got into personal development, then I become a financial advisor. I saw how these three things interacted with each other and I wanted to create a service that brought the three together. Now I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past and there have been moments of doubt, but then what keeps me going is asking myself what do I really want to do with my life?
I was in the Marines, I was a Federal Employee, I worked as a grocery bagger in high school, and I worked for a private company. I realized that working for myself is the best fit for me. I have bigger goals than what those establishments could have given me. I’m glad I went through them because they made me the person I am today.
And when I came across this saying of you were meant for this, it just reminded me that I just need to embrace the tough moments in life and try to learn how to get past them. I was meant for them. A lot of things about life are simple but they are not easy to do. I remember it took me six months of waiting before I became registered as a financial advisor. It was tough going through that while I was living at my parent’s place, but I took that time to work on other things for my business and work on the self-development piece.
I just reminded myself that I was meant for this and I just need to keep going. Now I’m in a year and a half into my business and it’s still a grind. Lots of time working with clients and doing stuff to develop my business but I love what I do and I love that I’m living in Latin America learning Spanish. I should be fluent pretty soon. Hopefully in a year.
And when times get tough, and they will, I will just say that I can handle it and I’m meant for it. I have to love the fate that I have been given. That doesn’t mean I’m passive about stuff, it means that I take responsibility for what’s in front of me and figure out a way to grow out of my situation and not play the victim. Playing the victim won’t do me any favors and I need to take an active role in my development.
This is my life and I’m the writer, producer, and director of my life’s film. Might as well as make it a blockbuster and if I take enough action and have enough perseverance, then I can have my blockbuster and why would I want that. And hopefully, this inspires you to do your thing as well.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, you were meant for this. Whatever happens in your life, it was supposed to happen. There is no need to wish things to be different, it’s better to make things different. Like I said in a previous podcast, don’t let your history get in the way of your destiny and the best way to predict the future is to create it. So whatever happens to me, I try to figure out how can I make the situation better. Doing this will give me the life that I want. I have one life to live so I’m going to make sure that it’s how I want my life to be to the best of my ability.
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